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Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
The Burnetts and Their Connections
John Burnett (1511-1686) was of supporter of the Royalist cause of King Charles I of England, and received a land grand in Essex County, Virginia in 1638. Later, when Oliver Cromwell took over the English government, John Burnett and his family immigrated from Scotland to old Rappahannock County, Virginia, where he died. His sons also took over the land in Essex County. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas and elsewhere. Includes family history and genealogical data in Scotland and England to 1066 A.D.
Two Vermonts
Two Vermonts establishes a little-known fact about Vermont: that the state's fascination with tourism as a savior for a suffering economy is more than a century old, and that this interest in tourism has always been dogged by controversy. Through this lens, the book is poised to take its place as the standard work on Vermont in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. Searls examines the origins of Vermont's contemporary identity and some reasons why that identity ("Who is a Vermonter?") is to this day so hotly contested. Searls divides nineteenth-century Vermonters into conceptually "uphill," or rural/parochial, and "downhill," or urban/cosmopolitan, elements. These two groups, he says, nego...
